Non-binary option for characters, please?

[kikix12]

God, when society in about 100 years from now looks back on this and how the word “SJW” is used as a slur for people who ask for more options of self expression, they’ll facepalm so hard.

Um...Twenty thousands years ago people that did not identify with either male or female were shunned or killed.
Five thousands years ago people that did not identify with either male or female were shunned or killed.
Two thousands years ago people that did not identify with either male or female were shunned or killed.
Five hundredths years ago people that did not identify with either male or female were shunned or killed.
One hundredth years ago people that did not identify with either male or female were shunned or tolerated.
Now people that do not identify with either male or female are shunned or tolerated.

I think that expecting people in a hundred years to take non-identification with male or female as an "obvious" thing is wishful thinking at best. I do believe that the "shunned" part will be reduced with time and the "tolerated" part will grow ever larger (even transforming to accepted in fair deal)...but "obvious"...it never will be. It threatens the survival of the species, and as such, there will always be significant masses that will not readily embrace it. As such, people that fight for that at the expense of freedoms (creative or legal) will never really be considered any less derogatorily. Even if the word used will change, "SJW" will end up being an "archaic synonym" at best.


As for the whole premise of this thread, the game is designed and established as it is. Redesigning the whole game is simply excessive, especially since that redesign is incompatible with at least some of the languages to which it is translated and therefore some versions cannot include it at all. Take it or leave it, but depending on how important that feature is to you, it may simply mean that you are not the target audience.

[BillyKaplan]

Redesigning the whole game

The game already checks your character's sex when it does basically anything. In cutscenes and even emotes and it changes automatically based on what you decided when you last used a Fantasia. Design wise the game already does it, the options are limited, is all.

that redesign is incompatible with at least some of the languages to which it is translated

That's the better argument and why I agree we're likely not going to see it. If the game was ever translated to my native tongue (won't happen, thank the Twelve) this would not be possible. Although that really depends on how the existing system is implemented more than anything, going with what I proposed earlier in the thread that either gender has a "straight forward" and "ambiguous" option, such languages could just refer both options to the same text option. They will effectively miss out on the function but the system can coexist for all languages regardless.